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Response to Assignment Assignment 1

ДА/НЕТ
НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕННОСТЬ

Есть слово "ДА" и есть слово "НЕТ". Все остальные слова между ними - "НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕННОСТЬ". НАДЕЖДА" это не "ДА". "НАДЕЖДА" это не "НЕТ".

Представь, что у тебя есть вопрос на который ты хочешь ответить "ДА", но на которого у тебя нет ответа "ДА" или у тебя есть вопрос на который ты хочешь ответить "НЕТ", но на которого у тебя нет ответа "НЕТ".

Response to Assignment Assignment 2

Hope: The act of rejection of objective reality.

Part 1

Word “ideal” in Greek means idea, image. The word “ideal” means “the best”, “completed state of a phenomenon”. But in nature, part of which is the human, the best and the completed state does not exists. Even everything is in process and everything is a process. It becomes clear, that the word “ideal” does not exist.

The human brain can accept, analyze and synthesize only the image, idea. That's why it needs to realize processes in nature, to provide the best and the complete state of the process, to kill and/or define the process, to transform it to a static image and/or idea.

The idea or ideal is a stopped traffic, dead nature. Our ideals are completely opposite of objective reality. Creating images, ideas and ideals we kill nature inside us. That's why I say that creating images, ideas and ideals is an act of rejection of objective reality. Not to realize reality is a simple rejection of reality.

Rather than to eliminate this “idealization” defect, we call it the highest standard of morality of personality. But this phrase has no matter with reality. Rather than give us an opportunity to realize the reality, from the first seconds of our life society gives us ideas, images and ideals. This is absurd. And what’s about me? I get an ideal from my parents in early childhood, but at 23, I realized the reality? I lived with this ideal my whole life. Maybe better for me to reject this reality and concentrate on my idea, image and ideal. That's my favorite idea. So fuck reality. I have an alternative. It is only necessary to invent a word for this alternative. Ideal, dream, hope, vision, desire, faith... We can call this alternative how we want. These made-up words are very dangerous for those who used to idealize, to dream, to hope... This words are dangerous and for those who have no hope and do not idealize.

Part 2

Hope is an act of rejection of objective reality. It’s the made-up word for the psychological exploitation of human. Why would anyone want me to reject the reality? Maybe he wants me don’t worry so much about the reality? Really, who wants to make better the reality, if I have an alternative? I can just hope. And I wouldn’t have any problems with reality.

If the hope is a made-up word, why do I feel it? It is simple. What do we need to have knowledge? We need the truth, the belief in this truth, and the reason to belief. We all have names. Lisa, Anton, Thomas, Igor, Eric. I have knowledge about me. I am Eric. And it’s true. I believe in this truth, because I heard it from my parents at first. And now I see this truth in my passport. My parents and my passport for me are the basis of my faith. But the fact is that my name was given to me by my parents and certified by law. To me it is irrelevant. This is just for convenience, so that people could write me letters. Hope is just like our names. Just for convenience. It was given to us by society and certified by family, government, nation, religion. Why? Please, note, that all of "certifiers" I told you about are a kind of system. And we know that each system has an administrator. And the system administrator doesn’t want to show the reality because of convenience. He is so kind that gave us the opportunity to use the "picture of the desktop” function. Let me to have no care about reality, because I also have an alternative to choose. I can put on my desktop all the pictures that I want to see but not reality. He will only create “desktop pictures” for us. Or more precisely, he will order us to create a picture for ourselves. And we create it and eat the same shit. We are started doing this so skillful, that it just becomes disgusting. Now we have to choose. Escape from reality to a brilliant inventions like “hope” or to start understanding and feeling the objective reality. Compared with hope, reality does not need to be nourished, because it is a fact.

With this project I want to explore ideas which can be a base for hope.

1.The Idea of Identity is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

2.Blurred image of reality is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

3.The word “personality” comes from ancient theatre, where actors played masked. Using masks is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

4.The idea of “human as a super being” is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

5.The idea of sexual inequality is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

6.Sometimes the word “sweet” is identified with our dreams and hopes. And nowadays the word “cool” is identified with the word “good”. It is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

7.The idea of “beauty” is forcing the “ugly” people to reject reality. It can be a base for hope.

8.All religions in the world, some of them specially, are rejecting reality. Religions are the base for hope and hope is the base for religions.

9.The idea of “nationality” is an idea of “breed”. The idea of “breed” is a rejection of reality. And it is a base for hope.

10.Idea of “Hero”. There are no many heroes. Everyone can change the situation. But everyone rejects this. We need someone to do the changes for us. We need a Hero to hope.

11.To be a citizen means to be a club member. Every club member has responsibilities and privileges. All privileges and responsibilities for club members are the rejections of reality. And can be a base for hope.

12.Prohibition can be a base for hope.

13.Every idea of “good” contains idea “bad”. Every contradiction contains idea of “contradictor”. Idea of “contradictor” rejects objective reality and can be a base for hope.

14.People use animals to symbolize the human power. It is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

15.The idea of “art” is a direct rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

16.The idea of “social status” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

17.People know that “they need money”. But it is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

18.The idea of “start and finish, beginning and end, alpha and omega” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

19.The idea of “clothes” and the “image”.

20.The idea of “leader”. There are no many leaders. Everyone can change the situations. But everyone rejects this. We need someone to do the changes for us and to lead us. We need a leader to hope.

21.The idea of “subcultures”.

22.The idea of “to compete and to be the first”.

23.The ability of human brain to analyze specific information forces us to specify the information. This is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

24.The idea of “freedom” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope. Because there is no freedom.

25.The idea of “property”. In reality nothing belongs to nobody. The idea of “property” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

26.The idea of “waiting”.

27.The actual problem of “borders” never exists. It is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope. In reality there is no borders and limits.

28.Imagine a moth and a lamp. Imagine me and my hopes.

Response to Assignment Assignment 1

Workshop: Арт-фотография и арт-рынок

ДА/НЕТ
НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕННОСТЬ

Есть слово "ДА" и есть слово "НЕТ". Все остальные слова между ними - "НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕННОСТЬ". НАДЕЖДА" это не "ДА". "НАДЕЖДА" это не "НЕТ".

Представь, что у тебя есть вопрос на который ты хочешь ответить "ДА", но на которого у тебя нет ответа "ДА" или у тебя есть вопрос на который ты хочешь ответить "НЕТ", но на которого у тебя нет ответа "НЕТ".

Response to Assignment Assignment 2

Workshop: Арт-фотография и арт-рынок

Hope: The act of rejection of objective reality.

Part 1

Word “ideal” in Greek means idea, image. The word “ideal” means “the best”, “completed state of a phenomenon”. But in nature, part of which is the human, the best and the completed state does not exists. Even everything is in process and everything is a process. It becomes clear, that the word “ideal” does not exist.

The human brain can accept, analyze and synthesize only the image, idea. That's why it needs to realize processes in nature, to provide the best and the complete state of the process, to kill and/or define the process, to transform it to a static image and/or idea.

The idea or ideal is a stopped traffic, dead nature. Our ideals are completely opposite of objective reality. Creating images, ideas and ideals we kill nature inside us. That's why I say that creating images, ideas and ideals is an act of rejection of objective reality. Not to realize reality is a simple rejection of reality.

Rather than to eliminate this “idealization” defect, we call it the highest standard of morality of personality. But this phrase has no matter with reality. Rather than give us an opportunity to realize the reality, from the first seconds of our life society gives us ideas, images and ideals. This is absurd. And what’s about me? I get an ideal from my parents in early childhood, but at 23, I realized the reality? I lived with this ideal my whole life. Maybe better for me to reject this reality and concentrate on my idea, image and ideal. That's my favorite idea. So fuck reality. I have an alternative. It is only necessary to invent a word for this alternative. Ideal, dream, hope, vision, desire, faith... We can call this alternative how we want. These made-up words are very dangerous for those who used to idealize, to dream, to hope... This words are dangerous and for those who have no hope and do not idealize.

Part 2

Hope is an act of rejection of objective reality. It’s the made-up word for the psychological exploitation of human. Why would anyone want me to reject the reality? Maybe he wants me don’t worry so much about the reality? Really, who wants to make better the reality, if I have an alternative? I can just hope. And I wouldn’t have any problems with reality.

If the hope is a made-up word, why do I feel it? It is simple. What do we need to have knowledge? We need the truth, the belief in this truth, and the reason to belief. We all have names. Lisa, Anton, Thomas, Igor, Eric. I have knowledge about me. I am Eric. And it’s true. I believe in this truth, because I heard it from my parents at first. And now I see this truth in my passport. My parents and my passport for me are the basis of my faith. But the fact is that my name was given to me by my parents and certified by law. To me it is irrelevant. This is just for convenience, so that people could write me letters. Hope is just like our names. Just for convenience. It was given to us by society and certified by family, government, nation, religion. Why? Please, note, that all of "certifiers" I told you about are a kind of system. And we know that each system has an administrator. And the system administrator doesn’t want to show the reality because of convenience. He is so kind that gave us the opportunity to use the "picture of the desktop” function. Let me to have no care about reality, because I also have an alternative to choose. I can put on my desktop all the pictures that I want to see but not reality. He will only create “desktop pictures” for us. Or more precisely, he will order us to create a picture for ourselves. And we create it and eat the same shit. We are started doing this so skillful, that it just becomes disgusting. Now we have to choose. Escape from reality to a brilliant inventions like “hope” or to start understanding and feeling the objective reality. Compared with hope, reality does not need to be nourished, because it is a fact.

With this project I want to explore ideas which can be a base for hope.

1.The Idea of Identity is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

2.Blurred image of reality is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

3.The word “personality” comes from ancient theatre, where actors played masked. Using masks is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

4.The idea of “human as a super being” is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

5.The idea of sexual inequality is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

6.Sometimes the word “sweet” is identified with our dreams and hopes. And nowadays the word “cool” is identified with the word “good”. It is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

7.The idea of “beauty” is forcing the “ugly” people to reject reality. It can be a base for hope.

8.All religions in the world, some of them specially, are rejecting reality. Religions are the base for hope and hope is the base for religions.

9.The idea of “nationality” is an idea of “breed”. The idea of “breed” is a rejection of reality. And it is a base for hope.

10.Idea of “Hero”. There are no many heroes. Everyone can change the situation. But everyone rejects this. We need someone to do the changes for us. We need a Hero to hope.

11.To be a citizen means to be a club member. Every club member has responsibilities and privileges. All privileges and responsibilities for club members are the rejections of reality. And can be a base for hope.

12.Prohibition can be a base for hope.

13.Every idea of “good” contains idea “bad”. Every contradiction contains idea of “contradictor”. Idea of “contradictor” rejects objective reality and can be a base for hope.

14.People use animals to symbolize the human power. It is a rejection of objective reality and can be a base for hope.

15.The idea of “art” is a direct rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

16.The idea of “social status” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

17.People know that “they need money”. But it is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

18.The idea of “start and finish, beginning and end, alpha and omega” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

19.The idea of “clothes” and the “image”.

20.The idea of “leader”. There are no many leaders. Everyone can change the situations. But everyone rejects this. We need someone to do the changes for us and to lead us. We need a leader to hope.

21.The idea of “subcultures”.

22.The idea of “to compete and to be the first”.

23.The ability of human brain to analyze specific information forces us to specify the information. This is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

24.The idea of “freedom” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope. Because there is no freedom.

25.The idea of “property”. In reality nothing belongs to nobody. The idea of “property” is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope.

26.The idea of “waiting”.

27.The actual problem of “borders” never exists. It is a rejection of reality and can be a base for hope. In reality there is no borders and limits.

28.Imagine a moth and a lamp. Imagine me and my hopes.

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City
PARIS/ÉREVAN
Profession
ARTIST
Website
www.ericstephanian.com
Date of Birth
14 Aug 1985